Friday, April 14, 2017

For This!

The dead are saying pick up our dispute we died for and continue because even though flowers grow here, if you don't, we won't rest and that means we'll haunt you.*
It's a very good poem. Gave me the shivers.April 14, 2017 at 5:26 PM

That's a mine. They'd actually dig a tunnel and place explosives under the enemy positions.

Sometimes it even worked.

The poppies, of course, are the symbol of remembrance Day in Britain.

PS Chip's take on Flanders Fields is reminiscent of the old Kipling poem "The White Man's burden", which doesn't brag about British colonialism, but urges the US not to let the Philippines go, but to colonize and develop them.

Had we not done so, WWII and the subsequent history may have taken a very different turn.